ensimer

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.si.me/

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Verb

ensimer

1. to lightly grease a fabric
   • D. de Prat, Nouveau manuel complet de filature; 1^ère partie: Fibres animales & minérales, Encyclopédie Roret, 1914

     Les appareils à ensimer sont tous actuellement automatiques.

Conjugation

Conjugation of ensimer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ensimer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ensimant /ɑ̃.si.mɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ensimé /ɑ̃.si.me/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ensime /ɑ̃.sim/	ensimes /ɑ̃.sim/	ensime /ɑ̃.sim/	ensimons /ɑ̃.si.mɔ̃/	ensimez /ɑ̃.si.me/	ensiment /ɑ̃.sim/
	imperfect	ensimais /ɑ̃.si.mɛ/	ensimais /ɑ̃.si.mɛ/	ensimait /ɑ̃.si.mɛ/	ensimions /ɑ̃.si.mjɔ̃/	ensimiez /ɑ̃.si.mje/	ensimaient /ɑ̃.si.mɛ/
	past historic2	ensimai /ɑ̃.si.me/	ensimas /ɑ̃.si.ma/	ensima /ɑ̃.si.ma/	ensimâmes /ɑ̃.si.mam/	ensimâtes /ɑ̃.si.mat/	ensimèrent /ɑ̃.si.mɛʁ/
	future	ensimerai /ɑ̃.sim.ʁe/	ensimeras /ɑ̃.sim.ʁa/	ensimera /ɑ̃.sim.ʁa/	ensimerons /ɑ̃.sim.ʁɔ̃/	ensimerez /ɑ̃.sim.ʁe/	ensimeront /ɑ̃.sim.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ensimerais /ɑ̃.sim.ʁɛ/	ensimerais /ɑ̃.sim.ʁɛ/	ensimerait /ɑ̃.sim.ʁɛ/	ensimerions /ɑ̃.si.mə.ʁjɔ̃/	ensimeriez /ɑ̃.si.mə.ʁje/	ensimeraient /ɑ̃.sim.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	ensime /ɑ̃.sim/	ensimes /ɑ̃.sim/	ensime /ɑ̃.sim/	ensimions /ɑ̃.si.mjɔ̃/	ensimiez /ɑ̃.si.mje/	ensiment /ɑ̃.sim/
	imperfect2	ensimasse /ɑ̃.si.mas/	ensimasses /ɑ̃.si.mas/	ensimât /ɑ̃.si.ma/	ensimassions /ɑ̃.si.ma.sjɔ̃/	ensimassiez /ɑ̃.si.ma.sje/	ensimassent /ɑ̃.si.mas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ensime /ɑ̃.sim/	—	ensimons /ɑ̃.si.mɔ̃/	ensimez /ɑ̃.si.me/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “ensimer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.